Local employees work, work out | Dayton Daily News

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KETTERING — Alan Handlin has a job that keeps him at his desk, talking on a telephone and looking at a computer screen.

So the fact that he can go to a gym in the same building as his office to stretch his muscles and clear his mind is invaluable to him.

“You take time to work off the energy you have from sitting at a desk all day,” said Handlin, a Reynolds and Reynolds remote customer training professional from Beavercreek. “You come back energized after moving around.”

Handlin is one of about 1,000 employees who are members of Reynolds’ fitness center, the Body Shop. There are about 1,300 employees in the building.

The gym was built in 2002, but with outside management and a fee to join, it did not thrive.

In 2007, company chairman and CEO Bob Brockman put a new emphasis on fitness. Reynolds took over the Body Shop and full-time manager Kim Crockett was hired. She solicited feedback from employees on their needs and wants for wellness.

The company gym now has longer hours, including weekends, and a full slate of group classes. Crockett also organizes programs outside Reynolds’ walls such as volleyball and softball leagues.

Jan Combs, of the Reynolds marketing department, lives in Springfield, so it’s helpful for her to have exercise classes at work instead of adding that in to a day, which already features a long commute. She takes kickboxing, Zumba and step classes during the workweek.

“My friends are jealous,” she said...

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1. Used to have that at First Union HQ

I worked at the First Union HQ in downdown Charlotte in the early 90s. We were in the same complex with a Marriott hotel and the YMCA. It was supremely easy to go from my desk down the elevator to the first floor and straight into the gym, less than five minutes.

Almost everyone I worked with went. It was so easy.

Kinda wish I still had that setup, but not that particular job. Ha ha. :-)